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Players have been reporting issues with GTA Online's recent Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 update, claiming that since it dropped they've been experiencing micro stuttering and frame-rate inconsistency across both online and offline modes.

There's a rather bad-tempered (understandably) summation of the situation over on the GTA V PC Reddit and the game's Steam forums. Developer Rockstar has acknowledged the issue.

The Fallout 4 team at Bethesda are pointing to the "phenomenal" sandbox open world of Grand Theft Auto V from Rockstar Games as a major source of inspiration in their pursuit of player freedom in the new RPG.

It's that sense of "going anywhere and doing anything" that they try to capture, and GTA V"does it so well." Game director Todd Howard wants Fallout 4 to be saying 'yes' to the player.

GTA Online is getting a big new update this week, adding a whole bunch of glitzy toys for you to spend your ill-gotten funds on. Which is fitting, because the update in question is called Ill-Gotten Gains Part One.

Most of the new stuff is aimed at rich players, and is available via the various luxury in-game shops. It includes new cars with gaudy custom paintjobs, gold helicopters, a new Combat PDW gun, and “hundreds of new clothing items and accessories”.

Some clever GTA V modders have managed to make quite a breakthrough, finally figuring out a way to add their own custom maps to the game. Previously the modding community had been restricted to using only assets found in the core game.

Should you happen to possess any coding skills yourself, you might want to check out modder NTAuthority's lengthy post over on GTAForums.com, which explains how to add custom maps to the game.

In the latest Take-Two fiscal report the publisher has revealed they've "sold-in nearly 52 million" units of Grand Theft Auto V across PC and consoles. These are figures of units sold directly to retailers, not to gamers.